Much Needed Help with Team

[jmccully61]

Here is the link

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team.html

I am currently 12-24, and have no idea what I am doing wrong. This is my 3rd team, and still have a lot to learn. Dont get me wrong, I dont expect to be 24-12, but around .500 would be nice. However, I have been injury plagued early on, I lost Bonds for 6 games, Schmidt 6 games, and Martienez 10 games. The Schmidt and Martienez injuries overlapped each other.

The philosophy of my team was to have 2 power hitters, then I focused mainly on OBP,AVG, and Speed. Speed because if I have a team that gets on base, I dont need someone clogging up the base paths. As for my catcher, I look for defense 1st, any offense is a bonus. I did not spend much on reserves, I looked for 1 R and L handed bat, then I wanted a utility player that could play a lot of positions.

Philosophy for pitching was to have 1 dominant starter, 1 decent starter, and with the 2 other two WHIP first, then take ones that if they gave up baserunners they were limited to singles or walks. I did want to put together a decent bullpen, again WHIP and if they allow a baserunner its limited to a single or walk.

Also, my lineup is

Morgan
Martienez (when healthy)
Gwynn
Bonds
Schmidt
Medwick
Meyers
Jurges
Hamilton

Hamilton is 9th because he has a better OBP, and Morgan has a better chance of grounding out. In theory, after the the first go around in the lineup, it is perpetual. Therefore, I consider Hamilton my "Leadoff Hitter".

I choose Busch Stadium '78 (L 1-10 R 1-10/L 1-4, R 1-4) because I have noticed quite a few teams are built on power. Therefore, I wanted to neutralize, as best as I could their power hitters.

Any help would be much appreciated. Feel free to rip my team apart.

[RICHARDMILTER]

I would be glad to offer my three cents of advice, but first you have to fix the link. Your link is bad. As far as injuries go; you just have to hope they even out over the course of a season. Also make sure you do not have a lot of high risk injury guys,...or if you do; make sure to have better than normal backups. Good luck (Don't under estimate it; it can turn your season around).

[jmccully61]

How do I post the link? Here is what I did, I went to my roster, and copied what was in my URL. When I click on the link in this post, I am able to get to my team. However, I assume I need to do something else.

[jmccully61]

Heres the link to my team, I figured it out

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=206750

[RICHARDMILTER]

Dreaming Tree(cool name), Once again I would like to help, however my expertise( if I have one at all) is the 2008 cards. You would be better served to post questions about an ATG team in the ATG forum. There will be a lot more ATG4 GMs over there than there are here. I wish I could help more, but it is better to give no advice at all than to give bad advice. Good luck!

[chasenally]

Do you have Hamilton playing CF? If you do then you have a big hole in CF. His range is a 3 which lets more hits drop in. With a +4 arm he gives up too many extra bases. Those two combined make for a really bad CF. Most vets play 1's at SS, CF and 2B if they can get them. Look for singleCF in your past games, most of those come from the range of the OF. If there are a lot of them see if they are leading to big innings for the other team. Check the other teams and see what range they have up the middle. Your team hits very well but with 1-4 HRBP your power guys are losing HR's. But like I said you are hitting very well. Your biggest problem is with your pitching. Aside from Koufax and Moore your staff in getting hammered. The cards look good so it might be your settings? How have you set up your relief pitchers? Koufax should be slow hook to stay in as long as possible. I hope this helps you some.

[jmccully61]

[quote:e20196e418="chasenally"]Do you have Hamilton playing CF? If you do then you have a big hole in CF. His range is a 3 which lets more hits drop in. With a +4 arm he gives up too many extra bases. Those two combined make for a really bad CF. Most vets play 1's at SS, CF and 2B if they can get them. Look for singleCF in your past games, most of those come from the range of the OF. If there are a lot of them see if they are leading to big innings for the other team. Check the other teams and see what range they have up the middle. Your team hits very well but with 1-4 HRBP your power guys are losing HR's. But like I said you are hitting very well. Your biggest problem is with your pitching. Aside from Koufax and Moore your staff in getting hammered. The cards look good so it might be your settings? How have you set up your relief pitchers? Koufax should be slow hook to stay in as long as possible. I hope this helps you some.[/quote:e20196e418]

First, thanks for the feedback. Originally, I had Dale Murphy in CF, but his bat was killing me, he got hammered against RHP. Therfore, I picked up Medwick for CF, and Hamilton is my DH.

My pitching setting are:
Closer Max
Relief Normal


I went back and looked at the results of past games. It seems that the main reason my pitchers are getting hammered is the roll of the dice, through the first 39 games the batters have won the roll 73% of the time. Is this unusual? You mentioned that my pitchers have good cards, I know Medich isnt great, but useful against a Righthanded lineup, but how is the bullpen? What is your opinion on Marquard.

Also, I know my HR production is down, but I wanted it that way because a lot of the teams in my league are built to win with HRs. Therefore, I used a Ballpark that will neutralize HRs as much as possible.

[chasenally]

That is way too many batting card rolls. You just have some bad luck right now. The rolls should even out and when they do you will be doing fine. I have found that when you want one RP to get more innings than the rest I set all other RP for not before this inning. I take my worst and set him at not before the 9th inning and so on. I leave the one I want to pitch the most ininngs alone. Say it is Fingers he wont get as many saves but he will pitch a ton of innings and thats what you want. I have Eckersley in one of my leagues and he has more innings pitched then all but 1 of my starters. His record is 10-3 with 11 saves and I think 4 blown. 102 games in he has pitched 138 innings with a 1.57ERA and .72WHIP. He isn't always there in the end but he pitches all the time. IF I have set him up as my closer he would only come in for save chances. He could go 5 games and not pitch an inning. I want him in whenever he can. All he is set for is less IBB as I hate giving them up. All my pitchers are set that way with the manager setting at extra conservative. Mike